Summary: A tragicomedy about love, friendship, betrayal, manipulation and lies. Deals with the conflicts of Yugoslav history of the past fifty years. The story starts from an underground manufacture of weapons of Belgrade, during WWII. The black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans forgets to mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. 50 years later, they become...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003

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Summary: In this offbeat comedy from Finland, Turo is stuck in a small village where the best thing is his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem? He and his bandmates have practiced for twelve years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway, the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival, and decided it's now or...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Summary: Two English sisters at the turn of the century are in love with the same man for seven years. His inability to choose between them (compounded by his overpossessive mother), and the girls' own powerful passions-- both expressed and repressed-- create a painful, emotionally charged triangle.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1999

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Summary: The story is based on the tabloid sensation of 1936, the fatal love affair of Sada Abe, a former geisha turned maid, and Kichizo Yoshida, the owner of the Tokyo ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant) at which she worked. Abandoning his wife and his business, Kichizo gives himself up to two weeks of dissipation with Sada at a nearby inn, which climaxes in sadomasochistic love games--and his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009

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Summary: Based on the real incident of Abe Sada. An ex-prostitute becomes involved in an obsessive love affair with the master of the household where she is employed as a servant which culminates in murder and mutilation.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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Summary: Two families, who both grow sugar cane, have been squabbling over the ownership of a piece of land for years. The disagreement then turned violent. The Breveses, a much smaller family, have been suffering more than their rivals and a steady drop in sugar prices has also left the family with little but their pride. When the eldest son of the Breves family is killed, his father orders his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002

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Summary: A teacher struggles to make a difference in the lives of his students.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2002

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Summary: A story of a sixteen-year-old boy becoming an adult in Sarajevo in the 1960s. Dino grows up with his good but ailing father and is attracted by the world of small-time crime. Then Dolly Bell, a lovely cabaret girl, turns his world upside down.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Entertainment Company 2005

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Summary: Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quiety fulfilled.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004

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Summary: "The film focuses on farmers of Punjab who are busy with their own activities and have neither aim nor mission in life. Some want to become singers, some want to go foreign, some just want to make money no matter how they make it. Thus running their life with drugs. This young group of four guys named Rabbi Sidhu, Gaazi Dhillon, Lalli Baar and Tunda, live their life and work for a corrupt...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Eros International 2010

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Summary: After the loss of her long-time boyfriend, Lucía seeks refuge on a quiet Mediterranean island where she meets a new man and begins to discover the dark secrets of her past relationship.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2003

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Summary: A young detective goes undercover in Tokyo's sweltering streets to find the pickpocket who stole his gun.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004

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Summary: A heartwarming and light hearted look at the daily lives of ultra-Orthodox Jews learning, living and loving in modern-day Israel. The story of a family facing hardships who must rely on their faith for miracles to happen during the holiday season.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006

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Summary: A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2015

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Summary: "Novice nun Viridiana does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism"--Container.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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Summary: In the first film of the collaboration between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, Don Lope de Aguirre dreams about conquering South America and leads his army on a doomed mission into oblivion. Jonathan Harker embarks on a long journey over the Carpathian Mountains to finalize real estate arrangements with a wealthy nobleman, little realizing that he is about to become involved with a dangerous...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015

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Summary: In the year 1860, a wandering samurai-for-hire turns the war between two clans fighting for control of a small town to his own advantage. A satire on greed, violence, paranoia and human weakness.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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Bergman, Ingrid

Summary: Collection of 5 newly restored films of Ingmar Bergman and a bonus disc of "never-before-seen materials."

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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2009

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Summary: Lancelot is a ruthless and ignoble opportunist who returns from his impossibly futile mission to locate the Holy Grail, only to callously rekindle his affair with the Lady Guinevere. A non-romanticized portrait of the knights of the round table.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004

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Summary: An entomologist is tricked by villagers into spending the night in a shack in a sandpit with a widow whose task is endlessly to haul away sand. He finds he cannot escape and gradually develops an intense bond with his companion and resigns himself to a lifetime of hypnotic routine.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film and Video/Image Entertainment 1999

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Summary: The great Agnes Varda's film career began with this graceful, penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the locals, Varda's discursive, gorgeously filmed debut was radical enough to later...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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Summary: Gojira: A prehistoric monster, Godzilla, ravages metropolitan Tokyo. Scientists suspect that H-bomb tests awakened it from a two-million year sleep and they try to develop techniques to stop the monster.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Classic Media 2006

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Summary: A middle-aged prostitute attempts to extricate herself from her sordid past for the sake of her son. Mamma Roma offers an unflinching look at the struggle for survival in postwar Italy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004

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Summary: Marianne and Johan always seemed to be the perfect couple. But when Johan suddenly leaves Marianne for another woman, they are forced to confront the disintegration of their marriage. Chronicles ten years of turmoil and love that bind the couple despite their divorce and subsequent marriages. Portrays the brutal pain and uplifting peace that accompany a lifetime of loving.--Container.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004

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